The development of the EN 12345 series: 1989-2009
conference paper
The development of the building acoustic prediction models in EN 12354 started twenty years ago, since the CPD made it necessary within Europe to link the acoustic performance of building products and elements to the performance of buildings. It concerned six acoustic aspects: airborne sound insulation, impact sound insulation, façade insulation, sound radiation to the outside, sound due to service equipment and reverberant sound in enclosed spaces. So these became the six parts of the standard, drafted by working group 2 of CEN Technical Committee 126 ‘Building Acoustics’. For various building elements the product quantities and their measurement methods were well established so these could be used as input to the prediction (estimation) of the building performance. But drafting these prediction models made clear what type of input data was still missing and what type of product quantities and measurement methods should be added. This generated activities in other working groups to define methods and in various countries to collect the product performances appropriate for the local building situations. An overview will be presented of these developments so far and the items still to be covered or improved.
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TNO Identifier
462425
ISBN
978-161567680-4
Source title
Euronoise 2009, European Conference on Noise Control, 26-28 October, 2009, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
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